Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye---when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save---respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. Do ye agree?

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know--" He stopped.... "Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Now, boys, let me tell you something. Sometimes you may see me coming out of a room in the White House with a woman. You just remember that it is none of your business.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

There are no secrets.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

We all know about secrets - to have that pressure of something you can't reveal. That's universal: 'Am I safe? Am I gonna be OK? Will my family still love and respect me?'

I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.

New Yorkers are tired of hearing about my personal life.

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.